Your proficiency in arabic has potential to differentiate and position you in investment banking, sovereign wealth management and the like. You're more likely to have accomplishments than you would be in the "human rights" sphere and you're less at risk of disgracing yourself than you would be within the national security apparatus.

Your proficiency in arabic has potential to differentiate and position you in investment banking, sovereign wealth management and the like. You're more likely to have accomplishments than you would be in the "human rights" sphere and you're less at risk of disgracing yourself than you would be within the national security apparatus.

Thank you for the help. I do not fully understand how fluency in Arabic would lead me to a career in investment banking or the like? I don't even know how those are related to the practice of law? What type of law would I study in law school to obtain those types of careers.

Well, bankers, asset managers, and the like need the assistance of lawyers. Some of these financial institutions direct funds that have to be managed in a manner consistent with islamic legal principles; it has to be (or to be perceived to be) halal. Islamic finance is a niche -- and growing -- practice area. I'm confident that google can tell you what you need to know about it.

Take Islamic Law and whatever type of finance and corporate classes you can. Islamic Law has a lot of regulations on acceptable and unacceptable types of transactions. And with some middle eastern countries and cities becoming increasingly capitalistic (see Dubai), there is a growing niche for people who lubricate west-on-Islam transactions.